Word: bidault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French official quoted British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin as saying "the case is hopeless," at the conclusion of his third session with George Bidault of France and Russian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov...
...mild, bespectacled Foreign Office experts drove to the British Embassy on the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré. For three hours Bevin and British Ambassador Duff-Cooper sat in low armchairs overlooking the Embassy gardens, comparing notes. Then Premier Paul Ramadier and dapper, London-tailored Foreign Minister Georges Bidault arrived with their experts. Eleven French and eleven Britons got their heads together over the veal,* adjourned to the garden veranda later for whiskey, brandy, and more happy talk...
...also made sense to invite the Russians into the great enterprise. Bevin and Bidault quickly saw that. So did Jean-Jacques Granier, 28, a Paris bank clerk currently on strike. Said he: "If the Russians want to come in, that's fine. If they don't, tant pis. That's their business. Ours is to take this chance-mais tout de suite." Although the Communist press grumbled at the Marshall plan, observers believed that even the majority of French Communist voters welcomed it and saw in it the one hope for a stable, peaceful Europe...
Economic conferences would start immediately. Moscow, after some-confusion, decided to pull up for a closer look. The Russians complained that they did not know what the Marshall plan meant-or what Bevin and Bidault had been up to-but they agreed to a British-French-Russian exploratory conference in Paris, this week...
Molotov was met at the airport by French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and other French officials. After brief ceremonies he was whisked to the Soviet embassy where a guard slammed the heavy wooden gates behind...